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Article published In: The political impact of metaphors
Edited by Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps
[Metaphor and the Social World 5:2] 2015
► pp. 165–176

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Special issue on the political impact of metaphors

 | Université de Liège
 | Université catholique de Louvain
Published online: 28 September 2015
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